supervisor avalos: 80 that it passes. that was our last item -- thank you, then it passes. that was our last item? >> there is no other business before the committee. supervisor avalos: than we are adjourned.

supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the public safety committee. we expect supervisor cohen to join us shortly. madam clerk, please read the first item. >> item 1, hearing to receive a report from the san francisco police department and/or a mayor's office of criminal justice regarding public safety conditions, including citywide crime levels and trends both

city-wide and by police district station and/or neighborhood. supervisor mirkarimi: all right. very good. as we expect to do on a monthly basis, hear from the police department capt. good morning. giving us updates on public safety trends, predictions, and progress. so, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i have in front of me the city wide profile issued on a weekly basis. but what we do it is take a four-week extraction period. city-wide, homicides have stayed a step with the same period -- homicides have stayed exactly the same. rapes went from 5 to 11. robberies are down 17%.

aggravated assaults are down 14%. on our subject of rapes, however, i would like to point out that year to date, we are down 36%. from 25 last year to 16 this year. our property crime, burglary was down 21% from 355 to 280 and down 21% year to date as compared to last year. auto theft was down 3%. we had 265 as compared to 272. burglary death from vehicles was down. arsons were up 15% by three total from 20 to 23. personal that is down 18% from 1007 to 18 -- to 827. last time i was here, supervisor

campos asked me about the clearance rate on part 1 crimes. the 2010 clarence rates i have by station. these are the clearing rates by our decentralized units. these are the 15 per station investigative teams. on here, you can see brief overall. at central station, the robberies' were 284 last year, robberies in the district. aggravated assaults, 285. burglaries, 565. larceny, 3368. burglary that on motor vehicle, 1358, but let me explain that that number, that figure is also included in the overall larceny figure, which is why it is so high.

we have it broken down by 10 district stations. in our middle category, those are the clearances. the crimes cleared by each station. as an example, in the robbery area, we averaged a 24% clearance rate city-wide. aggravated assaults, 33%. finally, under filing percentages, these are the percentage of cases filed by the district attorney's office. you see robbery in the central 83% of the cases filed by the d.a.'s office. aggravated assaults, 31%, and so on down the line with burglary, larceny, and grand theft. i also ask the supervisor at our domestic violence unit to give me the numbers, and looking at that report, i have for the last six months of 2010, just looking at the month of

december, on their report, they reported as far as domestic violence or arrests, part one of four felonies and 112 incidences of domestic violence arrests. aggravated assaults, 18. battery, 79. criminal threats, 30. stalking, seven. elder abuse, eight. restraining order violations, 32. other felonies, 1311. the unit took in as far as part one crimes 310 cases in the month of december. they averaged 325 to 340 every month. looking across the board, of the 112 incidences, there were 69 arrests made an overall clearances were made, so they cleared a little over 50%. on that report, i have the last six months of 2010.

i also spoke to the officer in charge of the lieutenant for the special office. part one, sex crimes for the year 2010 totaled 153. 51% of those cases were closed. 25% are still under investigation. 24% are filed as open and active cases. in those cases, that is where we have dna. dna has been extracted and uploaded international databases, and we are just waiting to get a hit. that concludes my report. do you have any questions? supervisor mirkarimi: ok. kind of an abrupt ending right there. >> i'm sorry. i had a lot of numbers, a lot of figures to get through. supervisor mirkarimi: colleagues? supervisor campos.

supervisor campos: thank you, mr. chairman. through the chair, captain, thank you for your presentation. i wonder if you have anything specifically about what is happening in the mission right now. we have a number of shootings of taking place. there's a lot of tension and anxiety, and rightly so, and i wonder if you have any updates. i do want to note that i want to thank chief godown, who has been very proactive on these issues, not only thinking about how to make sure that police resources are allocated, but also that they work with the community to make sure that it is truly

meaningful community policing that goes on. >> as you know, i was not at mission station last night when we had the community meeting, but it is a fact right now that we are having a gang war in the mission district. why this is happening, there could be a number of reasons. these tensions have been building up for many years, probably bubbling right underneath the surface. they came to a head over the weekend. they could be basically instigated by a number of reasons. but some type of graffiti for indiscretion perceived to be disrespectful from 1 foot to another. it could be disrespect of someone's girlfriend. a lot of these have been going on long before most of the players have even been alive. these groups naturally have it out for each other. over the past week, we have had

a number of stabbings and shootings. unfortunately, we have had one homicide. i know that our police apartment is very proactive with this. we have that over the last few days. we have come together with a real comprehensive plan working with the captains at the various stations. they each have drafted an operations order or plan to address this violence over the next two weeks. we are putting all the department resources into this effort. we are also using the traffic division. we are putting reduction officers on this, plainclothes and uniformed officers on this, and we will put the cops on to ensure that we are in the right place to try to stem the violence. i know we are working with the

community response network, working side by side with them to address these issues. they drove right into this issue, working with the community and with us as a liaison. we're putting together everything we have in our toolbox to address this problem. supervisor campos: one thing that i think is important to highlight, and i'm glad that the mayor's liaison to the board of supervisors is here. one of the issues that came up in the discussion is how critical the violence prevention piece is to the work that the police department is doing, and i think that the chief and the captain and all the people involved will be the first to say that the work of these violence prevention workers face a critical component of what

makes them effective. one of the challenges we are having is the violence prevention workers are working with a very limited budget, and the budget as currently configured does not account for additional expenses that may need to be incurred in response to these kind of spikes in violent crime. you find yourself in a situation where to properly respond to what we're seeing -- and a proper response may require doing a lot of different things, including may be taking some of the youth outside the city for different programs, trying to find different ways of giving young people avenues, other things to do, but something as

simple as having enough gas money to make that happen could get in the way, and there's the fear that if they do all the things that need to be done and all the things that the police department actually wants them to do, that they will run out of money. my goal is that when something like this happens, that our priority will be public safety and that we will be willing to make that investment so that those kinds of things do not get in the way of taking all the practice steps that need to be taken, so that is something that i think -- i certainly would love to discuss this with the mayor's office because we want to make sure that our police officers have all the tools they need to keep public safety, and that means making sure that whatever resources need to be expanded by the violence prevention workers, to be

proactive about this, our expanded. even if it means there has to be some budgetary adjustment down the line, but i think it is something that is very serious and something that has to be address pretty quickly because this is happening right now on the ground. there was a shooting that happened on saturday, and as a result of that, we see a spike in activity, and you actually had a shooting yesterday on 24th and harris said around noon. that is pretty significant. that is pretty serious. it means that there is something going on with that -- when that kind of shooting happens in the middle of the day and in a very busy street. then, there was another shooting that happened yesterday as well, which may or may not be connected, by a few are talking

about a potential war between gangs, that is something that could not only impact the mission, but it could impact the rest of the city, so this is potentially very serious stuff. in addition to the work the police department is doing, the community is trying to be very active about this. we have a mission of the peace collaborative today at 1:30 so that the community-based organizations and community members who work with these young people can come together in ways in which they can assist the police department and calmed down the situation. tomorrow is the funeral for the young man that was killed on saturday, and that is going to happen in the heart of the mission, so we need to make sure that we are prepared for something like that, and that means being prepared not only at the level of the police

department but also making sure that our violence prevention workers have the resources they need to do what they need to do. have i agree with you, supervisor, that our violence prevention component is a very important piece of the puzzle. we work with them all the time. i have been at meetings with them over the last month several times, and i cannot speak obviously to the fiscal issues, but we are working with them, and we will continue to do that. supervisor mirkarimi: supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you for being here, capt. i apologize for missing the earlier part of your presentation. we are supervisors here. you have three of us. all of us represents a pretty challenging districts -- 9, 5,

10. how can we, as elected members, the better partners? what would you do if you were in our position to help quell crime, if that is even possible? protect people, provide a certain sense of safety for our constituents. >> i do not know how much you as individual supervisors can do, but i think as a group, together, what we need to see is, like the other day on saturday, the supervisors out with the public, talking to them, reassuring them that everything is being done to insure their safety. i know the police apartment is working hard, very diligently on the crime component, but there is an education component, but i think that can come from you all so that people understand their own responsibility for their own safety. that they have to be responsible when they are riding

the buses or walking the street. they have to be aware of their surroundings. they cannot have personal electronics out in public view. they really should not keep personal electronics or anything of value in their vehicle. even though i know we work with sf safe and continue to send the message out, every chance we get to say that, to let people know that these are the things that are important for themselves, that is something we need to get out. also, i would like to see more information out there for everyone to report the crime is so that they come to us and let us know what is going on in their district. we need to have a clear picture. for example, in your community, you have a large group of non- english-speaking people in your community that are very private. for whatever reason, they do not report the crimes as often as they should, and we need to

break down those barriers and make it easier for them to do that, make them feel comfortable with the culture we are living in here. the police department is here to help. maybe not the same as what they have used in their own countries where they come from. supervisor cohen: sounds so simple. >> it is not simple at all. supervisor cohen: no, it is not. supervisor mirkarimi: just to add to that, i know you are working to enhance and diversify the reporting period i would also add, what is the likelihood of us trying to get some capture on those we are arresting to know that they are repeat offenders or not? you said you would look into that. >> i remember back. we have not clarified exactly what the recidivism is, actually, what the definition is of that.

then, if a person is arrested at the age of 24 -- supervisor mirkarimi: why don't you go ahead and define that for us? >> is not easy to do this because we do not have a unit. it will have to be a connected type of crime, a pattern of offense. shoplifting at a young age into burglary or perhaps robbery, then we have a pattern of that. if it is indecent exposure, let's say, moving on to an aggravated assault, something like that, then we have a pattern of offense. that would be recidivism, my definition of it, and that is what i would be looking for. but we averaged about 70 felony arrests every day. for me personally, i would have to ask them to look into their criminal background, each one of those 70 people, on a daily basis, and find out if their

most recent arrest had any type of connectivity to what they have been arrested for in the past. at that point, what would we do? count that as a point against them? do i report that as they have had five other incidents of similar crimes? that is what we need to define, exactly what type of report we will generate out of all of this work -- administrative work. supervisor mirkarimi: we do not want to make it more onerous. i'm thinking that while there is some notation, at the same time, when there are arrests, based on your recommendation and how to capture what that repeat offender rate is, what the easiest path is, i would defer to your suggestions since that would obviously be chronicled along with the rest. you would know concurrently if there was a record during the

rest as well, would you not? >> yes, you would. i have some ideas of what i need to do. in order to get this done, i would have to reach out to the various stations, have them give me a report daily on what they are seeing, what their issues are, what they see on their most current arrest, and they compile that information over the next 14 or 20 days and come up with something for you in the next month. supervisor mirkarimi: if that works for you, that is great. that will be helpful in painting the picture as vast as we possibly can to get some, i think, criminal-justice understanding. >> right. my fear is that i know 21 days is a small sample size in the big picture. i hope that this would not be taken as the and all of what

recidivism is -- the end-all of what recidivism is in our justice system. it would take a steady, almost a doctorate program, to put together something like this to get a real clear look at it, but i will try to put something together for you. supervisor mirkarimi: also, that is one of the larger concerns i have heard, that there is not this pollination of discussion. there is no form to have this pollination of discussion. when i talk to adults for juvenile probation officers, when i talk to the public defender or district attorney representing this as well, there seems to be only compartmentalized understanding. we benefit by the fact that the police department first responders -- they are able to help statistically chronicle that first responder activity,

but on the back end, considering the fact that three out of four people who are arrested or convicted are repeating their offenses in san francisco, would tell us a little bit more as to what kind of progress we are making on that front at the same time. i'm trying to figure out a way we can get a more holistic picture. would that make sense? >> it makes perfect sense. it takes a lot of time and effort. i would suggest -- i know city college has a criminal justice program. maybe have their students' work with us, and that way, we can have a resource that is not going to cost us anything, and it will be an experience for the students, and it will be a boon for us to get this information. supervisor mirkarimi: i think it would be awesome if the police department or your department

would invite intents and be able to enlist some additional support. volunteer perhaps. i do not know. but the mayor's office of criminal justice needs to be more buoyant. at one point, it had eight people. it had eight literally five years ago. they were the ones filling your shoes, essentially, because the police department did not have this level of statistical -- it was not in existence. they did not have graphs, i think, of the statistical sort of approach in how to present. now that you have comstat, and now that there has been a realignment in the mayor's office of criminal justice, what ever you can do, i think, to assist our efforts -- your

efforts and hours here -- i think that would be fantastic. >> i will go back, and i will spearhead an effort to work with city college with their criminal justice department to see if we can put this together. we have in turn to all the time, but they get so busy, tasked with so much other clerical work, that we need to have people outside of our apartment use this as a project, something they can get credit for at school and also that we can benefit from. supervisor mirkarimi: i think it is a very solid idea, and i think the same challenges seem to be fall adult and juvenile probation. sheriff's department has stated, too, but the actual combination of uniting all the different agencies that are part of the umbrella of the criminal justice system in san francisco -- statistically, it really has

been quite a challenge in trying to get a complete picture from the onset to the exit of the people who are perpetrating the crimes, whether they are -- continue to be those perpetrators, or perhaps, they are not. it is something that i think we reach a natural juncture, and hopefully, we will be able to upgrade our abilities. that is what this conversation is about. >> exactly. but i believe our challenge is going to come from are we going to be able to share the criminal history information -- supervisor mirkarimi: no. >> with the interest because they have to do the work. that is where the challenge comes from, how do we delineate the information? we let them compile the numbers and given the statistics. supervisor mirkarimi: clearly, you cannot compromise the information, but you are right. maybe if there is a way to sanitize this so you are working straight from a new merkel package, that will work.

-- from a numerical package, that will work. >> is not going to happen immediately. supervisor mirkarimi: you would be a first. this has been a discussion point for about six years or so. the fact that you said that you are actually going to do it, that as a breakthrough right there. so we appreciate that. appreciate that very much. >> thank you. hope i can get it together for you. supervisor campos: thank you. a couple points. on this issue, i think it is great, and you should be commended for doing that. i think it is great that you are involved in city college, but i also think that there's something to be said about the city also making an investment in this kind of effort. something like this should be institutionalized, and it is something that should be part of how we look at these issues.

not just the police department, but how the relevant agencies look at these issues. there are some changes or restructuring in the mayor's office of criminal justice that you work with them to figure out a way in which this must be an ongoing part of the analysis or the discussion. should not just rest at the police department, so i would encourage you and the mayor's office to work together on the -- on that. one quick question about crime, and i do not want to be labor this. mont mu -- on muni, do we have any statistics with crime? >> i did not bring it with me today, yes. >> we need to talk -- we cannot talk about what is happening with publicaf